The Very Long Morning

November 1, 2008

Whew! I’ve been attacking my to-do list all morning – the physical components. I still have tons left to do in the mental section, including a 30-day school lunch menu that’s going to take me a long time today.

We got up with the sunrise, but that doesn’t mean it was early – the sun was still not up at 7:30! It was rush, rush, rush to get to the gym so we could be back in time for the husband to leave for EF at 9:30. We biked there and back despite the cold because the sun was up and that made it seem warmer. I think one of my ears fell off though…. At the gym I did 30 minutes on the Stairs and then turned around and biked straight home (the husband had left 5 minutes before me) so I could see him off to work.

Once he was gone I did my pilates-yoga DVD (Ellen Barret’s) since I missed lifting at the gym. It was quick (about 20 minutes) and pretty easy, yet I still feel like I got in a pretty good strength training session.

Then I tackled the household chores = cleaned all the floors and the upstairs bathrooms top to bottom.

After showering and dressing, it was 11:00! Surpringly I wasn’t that hungry. Hungry, yes, but starving, not too much. So I set out to have a simple box of “mess,” which I was craving. But my simple bowl turned into a HUGE bowl when I just kept adding things!

A container of Chobani vanilla

1/2 cup pumpkin

Pumpkin pie spice

A tiny little apple, chopped and microwaved

About 3/4 a cup of Kashi Vive

Spoonful pumpkin butter

BIG spoonful peanut butter

Tbsp ground flax

It was SO DELICIOUS!!

I also had a big beautiful cup of coffee –

Not sure what time I’ll eat lunch, but it’s going to be a late one.

I’m off to work on my list – it needs me ASAP!

HAPPY BIRTHDAY DAD!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Larbs, Dad and I all have birthdays exactly a week apart My parents are celebrating Dad’s up in Boston with Larbs this weekend. I wish I were with them!

Hello All!
I am doing one big cumulative comment, which I will post on everyone’s blogs that I regularly frequent. I have been lurking on your blogs or quite some time now. I don’t know why I never posted before, nothing to say I guess! :0 Anyways- I’m Sarah and I am from a suburb of Chicago. I really enjoy reading all of your blogs and I feel I know you guys! (Please don’t take that as a creepy sort of thing! JK) I am recovering from an ED and you all have been such an inspiration to me, helping me understand what ‘normal’ eating actually consists of. So I want to give everyone a big THANK YOU! This is such a wonderful ‘community’ that you have here. I hope to be a part of it! Feel free to email me if you ever want to chat!

hey kath,
i’m sure you’ve answered this before — but what does flax taste like and/or how do you use it? i know it is high in omega 3s…

i haven’t been able to follow it as regularly, but i am enjoying reading your blog from overseas (israel). the food is great here — very fresh and local — but it’s fun to read about halloween, thanksgiving and all kinds of other traditions they don’t have here!

one funny thing: israelis are totally obsessed with why americans are so fat (i get asked this question all the time here, and on my last several trips here). i feel like i should send them to your blog to show them a good example of someone who is very health/nutrition/exercise conscious — but you can really see how geography/lifestyle/culture in the U.S. do make it harder than in other places. it’s really not just the mediterranean diet, but a whole way of life that goes along with it…i wonder whether you will explore some of these issues later on in your courses?

It’s my dad’s birthday too! Happy birthday to yours! I’ve been following your blog for a while (I love it & your recipes!) and have never posted, but I couldn’t resist today when you had “call dad” on your to-do list (mine was the same) and considering I made him bison burgers last night to celebrate after getting the idea to do so on here!

Your recipes and commitment to maintaining health while still enjoying life have been instrumental to my recovering and urge to live fully- thank you so much. It’s part of the reason I created a blog of my own (but only Just started!). I wanted to make sure it was alright that I added you to my ‘blogroll’ (but Please don’t feel like you have to do the same- this is all still Super new to me and I def. wouldn’t mind getting a bit established)

todoist does that?! i tried it out when you first mentioned it on KERF but i couldn’t figure it out… i’m like computer illiterate tho, it’s a miracle i can even figure out how to post comments on blogs.

whoa-ive never heard of todoist. i usually just use entourage on my mac which has a programmed todo list, but that looks neat! i just ate a “mess” this afternoon…it tasted DELICIOUS!!!!! happy b-day DAD

smilesara ,
Flax tastes kind of like ground up walnuts. Sprinkle it on anything and everything.

I took Cultural Foods last spring and that was our “take about cultures” class, although I do hope to take Nutrition and the Third World as a graduate class. U.S. nutrition is always a topic of discussion though.